Luc Lafnet Prostitution Pastel 1918 Liège Belgian Artist

Luc Lafnet (1899-1939)

Prostitution

Charcoal and pastel on paper, signed lower right Luc Lafnet 1918

Good condition, slight rubbing at the top left and a very slight lack of material on the left.

Dimensions:
On sight: 52 x 43.5 cm
With marie-louise: 68 x 60 cm
The work is not framed.

At the time when he lived in Liège and willingly exhibited in the room, since disappeared, of the old "Journal de Liège", Lafnet frightened and dazzled the bourgeoisie with the curious inspiration and the amusing execution of his enhanced drawings. Gifted with a very literary imagination and a romanticism that was moreover disheveled, he excelled in the reconstructions - medieval with truculence - of picturesque rogueries and horrific courses of miracles. (Jules Bosmant, 1930, p. 252)